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  1. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I prefer to believe that it's a photoshop and that I have found the original image.
  2. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Well... Tyrion got Olennowned! And I wonder if Tywin is not a little too confident in his authority over his children. Alienating them both seems like a dangerous thing to do even if,up until now, they were both constantly and desperatly trying to win his approval.
  3. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    If you were wondering like me, it's theSon Doong cave in Vietnam.
  4. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It is important to note that Sony has a transition policy for its console, both in age groups and in geographical location. The PS1 sold for years to children and emerging markets after the PS2 launched. The same was true for the PS2 after the PS3 launched and the same will be true for the PS3...
  5. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    On Foxconn, suicide nets and slavery: Modern forms of slavery that try to obfuscate their true nature are things like the mines where the workers rent a plot, rent equipment, rent a place to sleep, buy food from the mine's store and are contractually forced to sell what they find to the...
  6. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    Probably because stars can't be everywhere at the same time to do the promo.
  7. Szlia

    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    This Westbrook thing is a bit odd because he got hurt pretty early in the match and then went on playing long minutes on it. Let's hope it did not make matters worse.
  8. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    On a somewhat related note, why is she consistently at the top of the 'most hated celebrities' lists? Is it because of her snack recipes book for billionaire?
  9. Szlia

    Oblivion - Tom Cruise goes WALL-E

    The main problem is that you need the starting situation to have a story to tell and the writer just hopes that by the end of the story you don't ponder about the start of it and realize it makes absolutely no sense.
  10. Szlia

    Indie Games

    Funny you would post that today, because I just bought it earlier. Played about an hour... and a couple things really grabbed my curiosity, while another couple bothered me a little. We'll see how it goes as I progress further.
  11. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Why do they keep interviewing that woman? Are the news channel trying to be Ricky Gervais now?
  12. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Singham. An indian movie.
  13. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    For the sake of comparison, schools in Switzerland have seven weeks off during the summers (early July to end of August) and then three blocks of two weeks off (end of October, around new year, around easter) and one of one (end of February). Plus some off days here and there for religious or...
  14. Szlia

    Fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas

    I suspect it is related to how much of the state goes up in flames during the summer.
  15. Szlia

    Nostalgic Video Game Music

    The answer is always Silence from Axelay.
  16. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What you said is that Microsoft ignored Japan. Microsoft did no such thing. They tried to have success in the japanese market and failed. The first time horribly and the second time badly. That's encouraging for the third time! Oh and I know it's a temporary name, but:
  17. Szlia

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    This is a nice piece of revisionist history considering Microsoft made a big effort to court small japanese devs before the launch of the X360 and made the dev kits very affordable. That's one of the reason why just about every single japanese shoot'em up is made for the X360 with very few of...
  18. Szlia

    Monster - HBO Guillermo Del Toro series

    Urasawa's Monster is, without a doubt, a masterpiece. It's also entirely set in central Europe and this context is a core tenet of the story as it is about the dark remnants of WWII and of the pact of Warsaw in modern days. That seems like a tough pitch for an american TV show, but trying to...
  19. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    Also, robbing us ofFan Bingbingis not very nice!
  20. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    That's odd indeed. That might have something to do with the antagonist being The Mandarin. Maybe the chinese version adds some scene to make it more... culturally sensitive. Or have an actual chinese actor play the part instead of Ben Kingsley?
  21. Szlia

    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    What was the idea behind having ?zil exiled on the right wing? Was Madrid in an experimental composition because of cards/injuries?
  22. Szlia

    Iron Man 3 [Spoilers Everywhere]

    Movie theaters owners always get the short end of the deals because ultimately the product being sold is the movie, not the theater. This is such an unbalanced situation that distributors can almost get away with murder. We are talking imposing new equipment costs on theaters (3D, DCP, etc)...
  23. Szlia

    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    I am not sure it was a fitness problem for Messi. I think it had more to do with the Bayern mid-fielders preventing Iniesta and Xavi to feed him balls and the defenders being very disciplined and organized in order to very quickly double-team him if he managed to get the ball.
  24. Szlia

    Greatest Play Series

    The reference was lost on me, so it might work better with someone more knowledgeable on the subject. I might also be too knowledgeable about film craft for it to work, because when I see it, I imagine the crew asking the coach to do it for the shot, instead of imagining it's something he does...
  25. Szlia

    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    In the famous words of Balotelli: "Messi is really a magician: he managed to stay invisible during 90 minutes" I would be very very impressed if the Barca manages to escape from that. They'll need to score four goal when today they did not even shot four times.
  26. Szlia

    Soccer 2012-2013 3.0

    Barca: two third of the ball possession, one third of the corners. It's just one half and one goal though.
  27. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    This make me think that one of the core element of the scenario, the legitimacy of Joffrey, kinda went awol. Who are all the people who know the blacksmith's apprentice is an heir to the throne? The other end of that issue also remains absent from the plot: Joffrey believes he is a Baratheon yet...
  28. Szlia

    Greatest Play Series

    Not a huge fan of the 'Gladiator style plants caressing' shots, but I am always a big fan of the 'Dardenne brothers style of following the subject from behind' shots. That said, the trailer does a good job at making you want to see the whole thing, which is pretty much the point.
  29. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    At this point I think it's pretty much unclear, as the little info we have comes from the traitor, who manipulated Theon. The guy killed the people who tried to catch Theon after his escape, which makes the whole thing even more confusing. Was the death of four men deemed a price worth paying to...
  30. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I think you can safely add Olenna Tyrell to that list. Let's hope she meets Tyrion soon!
  31. Szlia

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    This girl sounds awesome! Not as awesome as Micheal Shannon, but close! The comments on the video were also pretty funny.
  32. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    How did that play out? ... Arya was the one who hit Joffrey and to avoid the humiliation he blamed the other kid? It's tough to be The Hound!
  33. Szlia

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    What were the events Arya was refering to when charging The Hound with murder? It did not ring a bell.
  34. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    There is something a bit pathetic with a terrified and wounded teenager on the run hiding in a boat like a stray dog and it's normal to feel some empathy for the guy, but the 'my brother made me do it' line of defense will be extremely difficult to hold when the prosecution will show him...
  35. Szlia

    NBA 2012-13 Season Thread - Crown The Heat!

    Jason Kidd: 40 years young.
  36. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    How do they lost the guy btw considering that at some point he was in a gunfight with the police? He managed to drive away before a chopper could get on him and before other police cars could block his escape routes?
  37. Szlia

    The Evil Within - Betheseda/Shinji Mikami

    That was not very informative...
  38. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    Between robbing 7/11 (bad budget planning), killing a MIT guard that minded his own business (parano?a), car jacking people and telling them they were the bombers before releasing them (gloating) and not having a car ready to escape after your crime (bad planning) and wanting to drive around...
  39. Szlia

    Boston Marathon Explosion - Today's Topics: Public Schools

    The younger brother was on a wrestling scholarship. Thanks for nothing IOC!
  40. Szlia

    Collector's Editions

    ??? Anyway, the only good reason to buy a collector's edition as far as I am concerned is to support the dev/publisher. Of course that's on the assumption that they get more money off a CE sale than a regular sale.